Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7% to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s. per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% by the end of that period.

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GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. And the ability to convince people of something even if it is not quite the case, the art of salesmanship, is a quality actually both common to and useful in leaders.

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The first is technological, as the confluence of high-speed internet, mobile devices, and cloud computing has made it possible to start and scale digitally-enabled businesses at a fraction of the cost. We can point to three major factors driving these trends, though there are others. The third factor is political.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Consumers in many developing countries don't trust the quality of the municipal water supply; some boil their own water, others buy bottled water and yet others purify the water in their own homes. Mexican consumers traditionally did not install home water purifiers, so Unilever was building a new category.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size. courtesy of HLW International.

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Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. High-quality talent and people who are ambitious want to see the world and the business management systems of the U.S. and Europe," Marilyn concluded. "I

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace.

Company 8

Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Reference – Reducing Variability: A New Approach to Quality , L.P. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984). – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

He’s a thoughtful, friendly, and caring person who genuinely wants to help people , not only by improving their web sites, but by improving the quality of their lives as well. The human qualities I felt these people possessed I think are sadly scarce but are the reasons for their success.

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Succession Media Mentor Blog 236

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. ” But research indicates that our best measures of these qualities are unreliable predictors of performance in academics or employment. ” I said, But they don’t look good, we need to do something about it.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. But the kind of organization that marks our own historical moment is, arguably, the turnaround company. You know their names: Hewlett-Packard. RadioShack.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

All that math training I got in high school finally paid off, because the mental image that flashed in my head was an equation of sorts: The first part of the equation summarized the qualities needed in every single employee. “Pr&# is Pride. “ Fc&# is Focus. ranked on a 1-10 scale.

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Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

However, this policy has recently come under scrutiny due to its high burden to doctors and the lack of sound evidence that recertification processes improve doctors’ quality of care. Why don’t we directly measure physicians’ quality of care and patient outcomes as they grow older?

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Sample Quality Education Career 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Efficient, high-quality, scalable primary care operations require strong management and leadership skills.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Galvanized by the seminal publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 1999, the patient-safety movement has resulted in substantial improvements in the safety and quality of the care delivered by hospitals. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

The first involves cost reduction through improved data quality. In a nutshell, improving quality takes those costs out, largely by creating data correctly the first time. Improved data quality also lies at the root of the second strategy, which I call “ content is king. The sums can be enormous. Think Google.

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Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan promised to deliver the best quality groceries at the cheapest price by the click of a button. Since 2005, Google (and more recently, its parent company, Alphabet) has invested in countless new ventures. The rise and fall of Webvan illustrates the cost of an inflexible strategy.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Still, there are plenty of first-rate universities in Europe, a quality of life that’s hard to beat, and no shortage of consciousness-raising philosophies. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. And then there was the serendipitous 1960s convergence of computing and the counterculture.

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Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Because it failed to remedy safety process and safety management failures detailed in reports following BP's 2005 plant explosion at Texas City, senior BP management off the rig — from the board of directors down — acted improperly. No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

Industry 15

Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 145

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Those processes produce high-quality goods and services, frequently with little human involvement. The cost of health insurance has risen by over 44% in the past five years.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation in which different technologies, such as genomics, materials science, and robotics , rise to the fore. Our world has been thoroughly transformed by digital technology.

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Industry GDP Technology Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Use new Disruptive Technology. When I started in political campaigns in the late 70s, the disruptive new technology was TV. This is the approach we used with Tony Blair while working on his 2005 re-election. It refreshed the Ford oval and made the company synonymous with new technology in the auto industry. In the U.K.

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Politics Company Class Brand 13